![]() ![]() The Romeros have lived in the same place for over a year, and Lupe attends the regular school in town. ![]() There is a Mexican family across the way, the Romeros, and Janey, after some initial resistance, becomes best friends with one of the daughters, Lupe. Larkin will work bringing in the cotton crop for the owner, Mr. The story opens with their arrival at an abandoned shack in the the San Joaquin Valley, where Mr. ![]() The family is close knit but not demonstrative, and Janey is required to read from their only book, the family Bible, every day to improve her reading. It is her most cherished possession, and a symbol of Janey's deepest wish, to have a permanent home of her own.īut it's the 1930s, and the loss of the family ranch due to a combination of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl has left Janey and her parents - her father remarried - to make their living as migrant farm workers up and down the West coast. The one thing, only thing, she does have is a blue willow plate, a plate that has been in her mother's family for generations. Ten-year-old Janey Larkin has only the faintest memory of life on the family's Texas ranch, and of her mother, who died when Janey was very young. Book #36: Blue Willow (1940) by Doris Gates. ![]()
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